Ric Mixter
Millions of television viewers recognize Ric Mixter as a shipwreck researcher- diving over 100 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. He has produced over 30 programs for PBS and the Outdoor Channel, and appeared as a shipwreck expert on National Geographic Explorer and the History and Discovery Channels. He leads the pack when it comes to sharing our unique underwater resources with the general public, and thousands of dive show patrons and countless school kids know him as the energetic story teller who uses video like no other presenter can. Ric is highly respected by his peers, awarded with the 2009 Award for Historic Interpretation by the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History, and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society's 2022 C. Patrick Labadie Special Acknowledgement Award for his thirty years of contributions to shipwreck history.
Mixter served as SCUBA cameraman on underwater expeditions to the Great Lakes largest shipwrecks, the Edmund Fitzgerald and Carl D. Bradley. He has interviewed dozens of shipwreck survivors over the past 15 years, including two from the 1913 Storm, two from the 1940 Armistice Day Storm and survivors from the largest shipwrecks in lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie. Today he runs his own production company, Airworthy Productions. Ric was Emmy nominated and has taken several awards including the Addy, Aurora, Michigan Association of Broadcasters Best Use of Medium, Associated Press, and United Press International.
Ric is a private pilot who has also flown Air Force missions as a documentary cameraman in flights on B-52s and the F-16D with the US Thunderbirds. He has written four books including "Howling Winds", "Bottled Goodbyes", "The Wheelsmen" and "Tattletale Sounds: The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations".
Documentaries produced by Ric Mixter:
"Tattletale Sounds" 2025 for PBS
"Final Run" 2024 for PBS
"Cement Boat" 2009
"Bombs Away" 2008
"Cutter Rescues" 2006
"Safe Ashore: The 1940 Armistice Day Storm" 2004
"Great Lakes In Depth" (26 episodes on PBS and the Outdoor Channel) 2000-2001
"Deep Six: Titanics of the Great Lakes" 1998
"The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations" 1997
"Expedition '94 to the Edmund Fitzgerald" 1995
"The 1913 Storm" for WNEM TV 1993
